Parent–Child Interaction Therapy With Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders

The impact of Theraplay® therapy on parent-child interaction and child psychiatric symptoms: a pilot study

“…The therapist doesn't stay in the room, but monitors the family either via a one-way mirror or video. The MIM usually lasts about [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] minutes. In this study, to achieve rich qualitative information, the MIM observation was rated using two separate scoring scales and two scores: Dyadic Emotional Interaction Style and Emotional Availablity Scales.…”

“…While many of these parental guidance-based interventions are offered to parents only, without the presence of their children, and focus on non-clinical levels of emotional and behavioral symptoms, there are also relational interventions. For example, widely used parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT; Eyberg, Nelson, Duke, & Boggs, 2008) has focused on directly teaching the parents how to respond to child misbehavior through a variety of play therapy skills with strong positive results in a variety of clinical settings (Quetsch, Wallace, Norman, Travers, & McNeil, 2015). Specifically in relation to child mental health problems, Pearl and colleagues (2012) examined the effectiveness of PCIT with high-risk families receiving services from community agencies and found that children in this sample experienced significant reductions in internalizing and externalizing problems, disruptive behavioral problems, and trauma symptoms after PCIT.…”